Single centralized ERP Deployment - This is an interesting topic as previously when I was working with Microsoft, our COE Head had this vision of bringing all silo applications within the Dynamics AX Umbrella. Even in my current organization, our approach is to slowly migrate all our legacy apps running on Access, InfoPath etc. to Ax thereby lowering costs and saving time managing these apps.

Dynamics Rapid Start Cloud based Services

Dynamics InformationSource Cloud based Services

Next major release of Microsoft Dynamics AX to be available on Windows Azure platform